KING HENRY VIIIth's HOUSEHOLD BOOK, being an Account of the Privy
Purse expenses of Henry VIII. from November, 1529, to December
1532; now first printed from the original MS.; with Notes and
Illustrations by NICHOLAS HARRIS NICOLAS, Esq. F.S.A. 8vo. price
1_l._ 1_s._
This volume abounds in curious particulars, illustrative not
only of the Manners, Customs, and Expenses of the time, but,
to some extent, of the personal character of Henry the Eighth.
From it may be traced where the King was on each day during the
above period, his occupations, and amusements, together with the
names of the persons composing his household, their wages, and
the cost of their dresses, &c. It likewise contains numerous
entries relative to Ann Boleyn, and the information which they
afford respecting her are both new and important. Among other
items are the sums paid for jewels, books, furniture, clothes,
&c.; the charges of the King's Fools and Jester; and the expenses
attendant on his Majesty's interview with Francis I at Calais,
in October, 1532. Each month's account is examined and signed
by the King. The following persons are particularly mentioned:
Cardinal Wolsey; Cromwell, Earl of Essex; the Marquess of Exeter;
the Princess, afterwards Queen Mary; Thomas Boleyn, Earl of
Wiltshire; his son, Lord Rochford; the first Earl and Countess
of Bedford; the Earl of Derby; the Protector Somerset; Bishop
Latimer; the Duke of Norfolk; Sir Richard Gresham; Sir Anthony
Browne; Sir Francis Bryan; Sir Francis Weston; Sir Henry Norris;
Brereton; and the notorious Mark Smeton; Domingo; Sexton, the
Fool, &c. &c.
[***] The original MS. of this curious Volume, containing 40 Autographs
of King Henry VIII. is now in the possession of the Publisher, for Sale.
UNIFORMLY PRINTED WITH THE ABOVE,
The NORTHUMBERLAND HOUSEHOLD BOOK.
The Regulations and Establishment of the Household of Henry Algernon
Percy, the fifth Earl of Northumberland, at his Castles of Wresill
and Lekinfield, in Yorkshire, begun A.D. 1512. Edited by BISHOP
PERCY, 8vo. price 1_l._ 1_s._
A very limited impression of this interesting Work has been
reprinted. Copies of the former edition having become very
scarce, at the sale of Mr. Dent's Library, a few days before the
publication of this edition, a copy produced 8_l._ 12_s._ 6_d._